Of Food Supply for the Chesapeake
Autor: jon • September 26, 2013 • Essay • 789 Words (4 Pages) • 1,627 Views
With different goals in mind, the two regions separated due to the major difference of what the two groups wanted. Socially, The Chesapeake had settled in the region for gold and riches. With no other goal in mind, it was difficult for the Chesapeake to develop families and stable homes. Not to mention the uneven men to woman ratio and the lack of food supply for the Chesapeake (Document C). They set up plantations and made profit from tobacco. The New England region consisted of Puritans who wanted to purify the church and escape religious persecution because of how bad and corrupted the Church of England was. When the New England region were first beginning to settle, they had no intention to make any profit or were obsessed with finding gold like the Chesapeake. Instead, they wanted to create a place were they could worship freely. A very important difference between the Chesapeake and New England was that they (New England) came to the region in families (Document B). Because of that, the population there grew by itself, creating stable families with a better ratio between man and woman, in comparison to The Chesapeake, who struggled to create families and make the population grow. The Chesapeake had a smaller population when being compared to New England for the sole fact that New England had more women in their region. Both regions had trouble and tension with Native Americans. The south was involved with Bacon's rebellion which later led on to Bacon's manifesto (1676) were he justified his rebellion against the Virginia governor and how much they have advanced since (Document H). Education was more important to New England than the Chesapeake. They were the first ones to have an education system and even found the first ivy college. In the Chesapeake region, education was not as important because of all the plantations and how everyone had to work in the plantations. Not only adults but kid as well, making it impossible for them to get an education.New England and the Chesapeake colonies had political differences. New England had more of a democratic system. As earlier stated, the fact that they had more women meant that they could create families, which would make a large population where they could start making compact towns. White puritan males started to lead town meetings. The Chesapeake had a legislative that
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